And the Marchers, too

 A kind of tenth anniversary reissue. Slightly tweaked so that it reads as if I'd thought it throughas I was doing it.

Find them in STORIES above, or here.

All the Policy Police comics redone

 All the comics are now in their third version. I started on Slideshare (they're still there if you look) - then they were put into comic-book format for print and put on Smackjeeves. SJ has gone the way of all things so I have now put them up as flipbooks on fliphtml5.

I think I've managed to remove all links from the Posts and direct people to THE STORIES above. This means I only have oe place to update if it all goes tits up again.

I still have the Marchers comics to do, but I have to hunt down the original files on my old computer.

Fixing it all again

 Following the demise of Smackjeeves, my initial response was "stuff it." But now I've decided to resurrect the comics again. I'm working through them all pdfing them so I can put them all in flipbooks. Going back through them again is really enjoyable, though it has convinced me that by 2025 the PP world will truly come to pass. We are all catching up fast.

More news soon.

Policy Police:Rebranding. A 10th Anniversary Special

The 20^th November is the 10^th Anniversary of the first Policy Police episode. It needed to be marked in some way.

I was so overwhelmed with happiness at the Organisation's demise, that I was no longer able to draw on the Well of Grumpiness that fed the Policy Police. And the story went into hibernation. But recently a friend showed me an outline treatment for a movie she wants to make, and there, in the middle, was a character who reminded me so much of Faren Gosman that I had to get involved.

But I know diddly squat about movie scripts, so I'm now half way through an 80-page comic book of the story. Which helps with the script. I tell myself anyway. It amuses and sometimes delights my friend anyway, which is good enough, really.

In the meantime, as an anniversary present, here's a little side story that brings the Policy Police world into alignment with the movie world. The comic-book-of-the movie-that's-yet-to-be-made will appear at some point. But the timing etc is my friend's call. It's her story, after all.

You can find the comic in THE STORIES tab.

Back drawing comics again. Advance warning.

I'm in the process of writing/drawing another story, and I'll point to that from here when I can. There is a kind of Policy Police link, too. But more of that anon.

I thought I'd just do a post here about these guys who are helping me out with the drawing.

Infinitely more patient than regular humans, and more human than the wooden people you can get. I bought them second hand off a well-known auction site, and they are most certainly bootleg versions of Figma Archetype figures. They are pretty good for bootlegs. I'd say the finish is not brilliant and they had been put together wrong, but with a bit of tweaking they suit my purpose.

They are around about 1/12 scale and the photo shows them with a wonderfully mundane retro office desk and chair by Hasegawa. Just the sort of thing the Policy Police would have in their office.

Anyway. These guys help a lot. Though he's built like a boxer and she's built like a distance runner, they are enough like regular folks to get by. I find I have to regularly shave off some of his bulk in the drawing and occasionally make her body shorter, but it's easily done.

Policy Police: Return of the Repossessed all on SmackJeeves

Really enjoyed putting this all into comic-book format. I'd completely gotten out of doing comics, so it was nice to do this stuff again. I'd forgotten large chunks of the stories, so had some surprises, too. The Buster story gave me a real sense of deja vu. I thought, "Oh, I was at that meeting." I must have used my notes from the various meetings, so though the names have changed, these things were really said.

Policy Police: Rapid Response all done

....and Return of the Repossessed all done save the epilogue on Smack Jeeves. Re-done all the links through from STORIES tab above. Tho' I think I ought to link straight to SJ from the main heading. Can't remember if I've done that. Will check.

I guess I'll upload the epilogue for Return tomorrow and that'll mean all the old Policy Police stories are now re-housed.

The reason I spotted that all this had gone awry is cuz a friend was working on something completely different and I saw some parallels. But then I wasn't able to show anything. Luckily I'd got some old print copies to hand, and sent them snail-mail. But anyhow. I am now inspired again. Mainly to help my friend and her project. But I've also written a short PP script that I'll try and work it up over coming months.